On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Kynn Jones <kyn...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com > >wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Kynn Jones <kyn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> as the postgres user, I get the error > >>> psql: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "[local]", user "postgres", > >>> database "postgres", SSL off > > >> What do all the lines look like together? > > > The uncommented lines are: > > > local all yours_truly password > > host all yours_truly 0.0.0.1/0 md5 > > host all yours_truly ::1/128 md5 > > local all all ident sameuser > > That connection should certainly match the last line, and maybe the first > too; but it didn't find a match at all. I conclude that this file isn't > actually what's driving the postmaster --- you are looking at the wrong > file, or you changed it and forgot to SIGHUP the postmaster, or you're > connecting to some other postmaster altogether, or some other mistake > not visible in the terms of this discussion. Is there a general way to get positive confirmation that a particular pg_hba.conf has been re-read upon bouncing the server with kill -HUP <PID> ? TIA! Kynn